On: Homeland Security spent $430M on radios its employ...

[ck2]

Think of all the millions of people looking for jobs in this country, there might actually be some slightly more intelligent folks to replace that 120k or so.

But I guess the only good side of this is THEY WILL NEVER HAVE TO USE THEM, it's theater.

$430000000/123000 = $3,500 per radio, which is also insane.

[fotbr → ck2]

"The $430 million paid for radio infrastructure and maintenance as well as the actual radios."

It's not $3500 per radio.

[ck2 → fotbr]

I wonder if you could buy your own encrypted mini-cellphone network for $430M

- given government markup, I have to assume the answer is "yes".